Adela of Flanders

Adela of Flanders (c. 1064 – April 1115), also known as Ailanda,[1] was Queen consort of Denmark as the wife of King Canute IV and Duchess consort of Apulia as the wife of Duke Roger Borsa, and then minor regent of Apulia from 1111 to 1115 as mother and guardian of Duke William II.

She stayed in the court of her father and brother Robert II until 1092, when she left for Italy to marry Roger Borsa, Duke of Apulia. She bore her second husband three sons: Louis (who died in infancy in 1094), the future Duke William II (born ca. 1096/97) and Guiscard (who died in boyhood in 1108).[3] She acted as a regent for her son William II at the death of Roger Borsa from 1111 until he came of age in 1114.